Choosing a short list of favorite summer salads with garden tomatoes was a challenge, but here are my picks! All these salads are low-carb, gluten-free, and South Beach Diet friendly, and many of the ones without cheese are Paleo and Whole 30 as well. Use the Recipes-by-Diet-Type Index to find more recipes like these.

There's no other food I look forward to quite as much as ripe summer tomatoes, and when good tomatoes are coming from the garden or farmers market, I can eat tomato salads or tomato sandwiches (with or without bacon) for days on end without getting tired of them. I first shared my picks for Ten Favorite Summer Tomato Salads with Garden Tomatoes back in 2011, when I'd just finished cleaning out my father's house with my siblings, and it was definitely tomato sandwiches (with bacon!) for comfort food that weekend. But normally there are lots more tomato salads than sandwiches at my house, that's why I have a recipe index with a whole page for Salads with Tomatoes and Cucumbers.

When I picked my ten favorite tomato salads in 2011, I had a big vegetable garden where I loved to grow tomatoes. Then in 2013 I moved to a new house, closer to a lot of my siblings but without a real garden. I've been getting by with tomatoes from the farmers market for a few years now, but I miss having a garden (!) and this summer I'm building a garden space that will have a complete cage around it to keep away the deer, squirrels, rabbits, and other critters at the new house. Hopefully next summer I'll be growing my own tomatoes again.

Meanwhile the tomatoes I'm getting from the farmers market are pretty great, and I've come up with quite a few new tomato salads since 2011. I thought it would be fun to update this favorite tomato salads post with some of my newer salads that spotlight the flavor of fresh tomatoes. And because it's so hard to narrow down the list to just ten salads, you can see ten more honorable mentions after the photos! Some of these salads use heirloom green or yellow tomatoes that are extra good, but you can make the recipes with any kind of flavorful fresh ripe tomatoes.

One of the tomato salads I've loved for years is the Middle Eastern Tomato Saladthat I learned to make from my friend Massoud. You may have had this in a restaurant where it might be called Salad Shirazi, and salads with these ingredients are made all over the world.

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Wow, great recipes, Kalyn. I want a tomato sandwich right now!...but waaah...my green zebra tomato plant only produced 2 tomatoes so far...I will savor eating them tomorrow. Perhaps I need to repot the plant to get more tomatoes this year.

Kalyn, you are the queen of amazing salads, so I'm not surprised at all that you had a hard time choosing ten. I probably would have done my usual "cheat" when I do Top 10 lists and said "Top 10 Plus One (Or Two)." LOL But where does one stop? ;-) That first photo and those stacks are especially appealing to me!

Hoping that you guys are done cleaning so that you all can focus on your family reunion event! Bet one of your salads makes it on to the table. :-)

Thanks everyone for the nice thoughts about my favorite salads. The house is mostly cleaned out now and today is the big family reunion with about 100 people. Should be fun, and a nice way to finish up that rite of passage.

Shirley, you're right. I'm making the salad with tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, olives and basil for the reunion.

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